- Detective Elliot Stabler: [in a therapy session after Elliot beats up a cop who was beating up his teenage son; talking about Elliot's memories of his father]
- [Dr. Hendrix asks if Elliot's father ever helped him with his homework]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Once, when I was in fifth grade. I had to make this diorama. Remember those things? The model you put in shoe boxes?
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: Sure.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: It was about the Civil War. And he told me where the put the cannons, and the soldiers, the trees... Nay, forget it.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: Did you get a good grade?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What?
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: Did you get a good grade?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What difference does that make?
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: It's just a question.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I don't understand what you want from me.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: The truth. I want you to start talking... really talking. What grade did you get on the diorama?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: An F!
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: You failed.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I didn't hand it in.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: Why not?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I moved one of the trees. And my father saw it as I was leaving for school. He took it out of my hands and he threw it on the ground and he stomped on it.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: It must have really hurt when he did that.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: He took off his belt and he beat me with it... Because I cried... and only... pan... pansies cry...
- [he starts to cry]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: He said I was weak, and called me a failure. He called me that a lot.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: What did you see in that mirror today, Elliot?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: The guy my father always saw.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: You're not weak. You're so busy being strong, and helping everyone, you've got nothing left for yourself. It takes a lot more balls to talk about your problems, than beat the hell out of a ghost.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: [Elliot starts to walk out on his session] Where are you going? How many times have you thought about eating your gun?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [indignant] Suicide's a sin.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I left a message for Huang. He's gonna come in and talk to him.
- Olivia Benson: Since when do we call the shrink before we make the collar?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I just think there's another explanation.
- Olivia Benson: It may not be worth it to make Pamela relive what happened? Who are you kidding? You're trying to make this go away.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I've known Luke since he was a baby. Always a sweet kid.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot, you haven't seen him since before he hit puberty and he's not so sweet anymore.
- Donald Cragen: [to Stabler] What are you doing? You told the Sawyers that Pamela's better off not making a complaint.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Olivia tell you that?
- Donald Cragen: No, Pamela's parents. This is worse than breaking the rules this time. You put the entire squad's credibility on the line.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Captain...
- Donald Cragen: You did everything you could to get your ex-partner's kid a pass.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Captain...
- Donald Cragen: As of right this minute, you are on vacation. Just get your ass out of my sight before I do something we both regret.
- Odafin Tutuola: [to the gym owner after it's discovered Luke is using steroids] You running a juice bar here, buster?
- Gym Owner: That stuff will give you pimples and shrink your balls. I swear I don't know where it came from.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I, uh, don't like being ordered around.
- Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: You don't like being ordered around? Why'd you become a cop?